Jesus Diaz

Stephen Trimble—master of all things flying—has found this video that apparently shows a T-38 training fighter shooting down the theoretically invincible F-22 Raptor in a combat training exercise—first kill documented on video ever.

When I first came across this photo I thought it was a new classified starfighter being tested by…
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However, this time instead of a high-tech EA-18G, the killer plane was this:

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A humble T-38 training jet, piloted by a trainer on a combat training exercise over an unidentified air space. And it killed this:

An F-22 Raptor, the most advanced air fighter in the planet.

Stephen says that this doesn't mean much, except that—if it was really a T-38, the pilot was "either absurdly lucky or insanely skilled." Here's hoping all those Chinese and Russians flying next-generation fighters don't get either lucky or skilled anytime soon. [Flight Global]